Tornado Oral History Collection

On March 19, 2018, an EF-3 tornado devastated the City of Jacksonville, Alabama, and had a significant impact on the campus of Jacksonville State University (JSU). Using an oral history approach, a team of researchers from JSU's Center for Disaster and Community Resilience (CDCR) conducted in-depth interviews of 25 residents of Jacksonville who experienced the EF-3 tornado. Interviews took place in the Houston Cole Library, were conducted in private, and lasted approximately 90 minutes each. An article was published in 2022 based on the tornado oral history project in the Weather, Climate, and Society journal by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

The materials in this collection are comprised of 20 audio files of the 2018 tornado survivors who gave consent to publish the recordings, the flyer and associated invitation letter to the Jacksonville community to collect oral histories, and the article published in the AMS journal.